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Service customisation and standardisation in combinatory knowledge-intensive business services

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  • Marco Bettiol
  • Eleonora Di Maria
  • Roberto Grandinetti

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The trade-off between customisation and standardisation in service offerings has been widely debated in the literatures on service in general and on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) specifically. Moving beyond this trade-off, this paper introduces a new type of service offering, called combinatory KIBS, distinguished by their capability to combine customisation and standardisation. Based on a sample of approximately 500 KIBS, our results show that combinatory KIBS develop specific business strategies which achieve superior performance in customisation and standardisation. They pair customer interaction aimed at service customisation and knowledge codification useful in providing standard services, while also investing in networking.

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  • Marco Bettiol & Eleonora Di Maria & Roberto Grandinetti, 2015. "Service customisation and standardisation in combinatory knowledge-intensive business services," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(3), pages 241-260.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:6:y:2015:i:3:p:241-260
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    2. Cui Zhang, 2019. "Agglomeration Economies And Performance In Knowledge-Intensive Business Services," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 65(02), pages 457-469, May.

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